Advertising-kiosk.



G. W. WILLIAMSON.

ADVERTlSING KIOSK,

APPLICATION FILED Fa.24. 19x1.

1,240,637. Patented Sept. 18, 1917.

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INVENTOR ATTORNEY G. W. WILLIAMSON.

ADVERTISING KIOSK.

APPLICATION man FEB. 24, 1911.

1,240,637. PatntedSept. 18,1917. 33 6" 3S HEETSSREET 2.

INVENTOR 2560 W WiZZz'anwan.

I G. W. WILLIAMSON.

ADVERTISlNG KIOSK.

APPLICATION man FEB. 24. v9.1

1 ,2%U,637. Patented Sept. 18, 1917.

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ADVERTISING-KIOSK.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. is, rare.

Application filed February 24, 191?. Serial No. 150,753.

, To all whom it may concern son,

Be it known that I, GEORGE it. l/VIILIAM- citizen of tlB United States, residing at Petaluma, in the county of Sonoma and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Advertising-Kiosks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to sign exhibiting, and more especially to electrically controlled changeable exhibitors; and the object of the same isto produce a slowly revolving kiosk or similar structure adapted to be set up in halls, on the street, or in public places, and provided on its several faces with movable tapes orwebs intermittently actuated to display pictures, signs, or advertising matter and the like through window openings in the walls of the revolving kiosk, so that persons on all sides of the latter may see the same. The device is operated electrically by power taken from the wires of a direct or alternating current system, and by preference we make use of the same motor or motors for revolving the kiosk constantly and moving the webs intermittently, and employ buttons or other circuit closers on the webs themselves to actuate clutch mechanism for starting and stopping the movementof the.

rollers which carry the webs and for re; 'versing them in their direction of movement when the end of the webs'has been reached.

Details will be .found in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings wherein- Figure l is an elevation of this kiosk.

Fig. 2 is a diagram giving a plan view of the wiring from the hubof the kiosk to the motor, and showing terminals on certain of the spokes of the kiosk which move over circuit closer blocks on the fixed base thereof .tor close Ziertain circuits as herein described;

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Fig. 3 is an elevation of the power shaft view of the mechanism by which it is connected with the rollers of one web-actuator; giving a continuation of the circuits of Fig. 2 and the magnets and devices controlled thereby.

Fig. l is a detail view of a piece of one web or tape near its end, showing the series of buttons for causing its intermittent movement and one of the main buttons for causmg a 'reversal of the direction of its movement.

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roof & suitably ornamented in'about the' said motor and a diagrammatic and a detailed sectional view of the collector ringsv whereby current is taken from the wires of a direct circuit or alternating circult and delivered to the motor.

Fig. 8 is a sectional detail of oneof the collector rings and its brush taken on about the line 88 of Fig. 7.

Fig. 9 is a detail of the worm mechanism. In Fig.1 I have shown a kiosk K in elevation, the same being-the revolving structure which carries the advertisement. Mounted on a base 1 which is fast upon the floor or rises above the same is the revolving structure, herein shown as a kiosk which comprises an upright wall 2 made in panels as shown, and each panel'providedwith; two framed openings 3 disposed preferably one above. the whole being surmounted by a manner illustrated or after any design which is practical andserviceable. There ma be as-many side faces "or panels as desire as eight or sixteen, and, each panel could have two openings one above the other orv a greater or less number as preferred. ,Itiis my intention that .the entire structure shall revolve slowly on an upright axis,

and that tapes or webs 5 mounted on upper and lower rollers 6 and 7 shall move intermittently across the openings 3, each blockpor'space (see Fig. 4:) carrying one picture or adver tisement and the same being changed at intervals of perhaps every thirty seconds or once for each revolution of the kiosk. In other words, at one point in the revolution the picture or advertisement changes rather quickly, then the kiosk rotates or revolves on its axis rath eii 'sloWly-so that persons on all sides of the same within the apartment in which the structure is situated may see the picture orread the advertisement, and at the conclusionof the revolution the picture a 'ain changes quicklyg'and j or advertisement after the web has run its course andreaehes either extreme, its direction of movement is automatically reversed by mechanism which will be explained below.

At a suitable point within the kiosk is an electric motor 10 whose shaft is connected by gearing or otherwise at 11 with an upright power. shaft 12 journaled in bearings in the kiosk in a. manner not necessary to illustrate. I may say at this point that there could be one of these power shafts for each pair of upright openings 3, each shaft driven by its own motor, or the several power shafts could be properly connectedwith each other by gearing not shown and driven by a single motor. I consider this detail unimportant, and in the present case have illustrated but a single motor and a single shaft, as that is all that is necessary for the purposes of description. The lower end of the power shaft may carry a gear meshing with a ring of gear teeth 13 on the fixed base, so that the rotation of the power shaft causes the revolution of the kiosk; although of courseit would be possible to impart revolution there to by a separate motor. At proper points, the shaft 12 carries worms 14 and 15 pitched in opposite directions, the'former engaged with an upper wormgear l6 and the latter with a lower worm gear at l7 as best seen in Fig. 3, and the hubs 18 ofthese gears are slidably keyed as at 19 on their respective shafts 20 as seen in Fig. 9. The upper shaft carries a friction disk 26 contacting with the enlarged head of the roller 6, and the lower shaft carries a similar disk 27 con tacting with the head of the lower roller 7 spring 29 of the lower shaft is under compression and the shaft is retracted so that its disk 27 does not touch the head of the roller 7. Each of these springs may be coiled around the shaft between the disk and'the hub of the worm gear as shown. The rollers have brakes 6 and 7.

The gear shifting mechanism is actuated electrically by magnets within a battery circuit which is opened and closed intermittently by the revolution of the kiosk, as I will now describe. The numeral 30 designates a retracting magnet or -solenoid acting directly on the rear end of the shaft 20, and

the latter has a notch 3L which is engaged by the tip of a spring-pressed catch. 32

thrown normally upward as shown, but retracted by a trip magnet 33. The disposition of parts is such that when the shaft is retracted by the magnet 30 the notch comes I over the tip of the catch and the latter moves into the same to hold the shaft retracted until trip magnet 33 is energized to trip the catch at a time when there is no current within the retracting magnet 30. From a battery 34 leads a wire 35, through a switch yet to be described and numbered and along one branch 36 to the upper magnet, thence along a wire 37 to a circuit-closer 38, shown in Fig. 3 as consisting of two rollers bearing on opposite sides of the web 5, and normally out of contact, and from this circuit closer back to the battery 34:; and between' thence by wire 37 to said circuit closer and back tothe battery along the course already outlined, and therefore when the circuit is closed by the passage of a button an impulse will be directed to and through one magnet according as the switch is set, with the result that either the upper or lower shaft will be retracted and the movement of the web in acorresponding direction interrupted. From said branch 36 another wire 40 leads to a terminal 41 standing adjacent another terminal 42, said terminals being carried by the kiosk mechanism as 'indicated in Fig. 2, and therefore revolving with it. At one or more points on the base beneath this mechanlsm 1s a clrcuit clos1ng-device such as a block 43, and at each revolution of the kiosk these terminals move across said block and ar'e thrown into 'communica This would be the case tion with each other. if-it were desired that the picture or advertisement be changed once at each revolution .of the kiosk; if it should be the desire to have it changed oftener a larger number of blocks may be employed. From the sec ond terminal 42 a wire 44 leads tothe upper trip magnet 33, and thence by wire 45 back to the battery. From the other branch wire 36' leads a second wire 40 through the lower trip magnet 33 and another pair of terminals il and 12, carried at another point'within the kiosk, thence back by wire 44: past the upper trip magnet 33, and along a wire '45 to the battery. It will be observed that these circuits for the trip magnets are respectively controlled by circuit closers disposed at difierent points within the revolving structure or kiosk, but, like the retracting magnets, their actuation is dependent upon the setting of'said switch. It will also permit the catclr32 of either trip magnet to the nature of the-current supplied and whatever the windings of the various motors (so long as they are all alike) proper connections may be made from the source of energy to drive the machine without changing the construction of parts or the wiring excepting that the proper pair of brushes must be connected up with themotor.

What is claimed as new is 1. In a changeable exhibitor, the combination with a web-actuating roller, a longi tudinally movable, driving shaft therefor having a notch, and a friction disk on the shaft adapted to contact with the head of the roller; of a solenoid in which the rear end of the driving shaft is mounted, an electrically cont-rolled catch adapted to engage said notch when the driving shaft is retracted and its friction disk out of contact with the roller-head, and means for alternately actuating the solenoid and the catch.

i 2-. In an exhibitor of the class described, the combination with upper and lower rollers, a web wound thereon and having display panels, and a series of buttons along one edge of the web corresponding in number with the panels; of a power shaft, driving shafts having disks contacting with said rollers for rotating them respectively in opposite directions, electrically controlled means for moving either of said driving shafts to throw its disk out of action while the other remains in action, thereby to wind the web in either direction, electrically controlled means for throwing the active disk out of action intermittently, a circuit breaker whose terminals stand in the path of said buttons, and a power circuit through said tracted and its friction disk out of contact with the roller-head, and means for actuating the solenoid and the catch.

4. In a changeable exhibitor, the combination with a revolving kiosk, changeable panels carried thereby, means for changing them and for revolving thekiosk a cam and a motor carried by the kiosk and actuating said means; of an upstanding pillar fixed in said support, ahead carried thereby and supporting two pairs of contact rings to which the wires from a direct current and an alternating current are respectively connected throughthe pillar, ablock carried by the kiosk, two pairs of spring-pressed brushes mounted in the block and respectively contacting with the rings, and feed wires leading from the motor and respectively connected with said brushes.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

enonen w. WILLIAMSON.

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